About a boy
A novel written by Nick Hornby. It's a tragicomically book. It's a funny story written in an entertaining way but in the same time it describes some peoples quite tragically destinies. There is the hippie inspired mother, Fiona, who is depressed and "trying to take her life", her 12 years old son Marcus, trying to live a normal life but always feels like an outsider because of his weird mother, Will a 36 years old teenager, a rootless man spending his life doing nothing respectable. Marcus parents are divorced, Marcus and his mother lives in London. The action of the novel is set in 1992.
Marcus is bullied in school. He had unfashionable clothes, he had wrong haircut and he never owned a pair of trainers. His way of living was just totally wrong. Marcus tried hardly to live such a normal life as possible, but his mother was still in the seventies and thought that the life of today was just all rubbish. They are vegetarians, listen to Joni Mitchell and Bob Marley and......
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